Not just plomeek soup!
There is much more to Vulcan cuisine than plomeek soup- or as we call in Vulcan, shur t’plomik.
Vulcan cuisine is dominated by the hardy vegetables and fruits that grow in the desert climate, and, in keeping with Surakian precepts, is entirely vegan. But do not let this make you think it is plain and boring!
The Vulcan body is prepared to conserve as much moisture as possible in the desert weather, and as such, Vulcans secrete much less saliva than humans, which impacts the sense of taste. To compensate for this, most Vulcan dishes are actually really spicy and hot by human standards!
Also of note is that Vulcans become intoxicated when consuming sucrose, not alcohol like humans. Alcohol has no effect on Vulcans, but many fruit juices are very popular due to their intoxicating qualities on the Vulcan physique.
Here’s a list of some other popular Vulcan foods and drinks that aren’t shur t’plomik:
MAIN DISHES
Balkra: a casserole made of a squash-like fruit. It tastes like yellow squash, but it has the texture of mashed potatoes.
Barkaya marak: a vegetable soup tasting like cream of spinach and served warm. It’s made from a peanut-like legume native to Vulcan. (The one in the picture below was made by KCGeeks).
Fori: a type of vegetable, served often in a wide variety of dishes.
Khara: a hardy desert bush with moisture-laden core; the soft edible pulp of its stalks tastes slightly salty.
Klitanta: also spelled Kleetanta. A popular dish, normally served with forati sauce (see below).
Pok tar: a Vulcan dish made of different components. As shown on ENT, it looks like this:
Pre tarmeeli: a hot and spicy Vulcan vegetable entrée, much like a vegetable curry.
Shur t'bertakk: bertakk soup.
Yarmok: a dish of raw fruits and vegetables often tossed with other ingredients and served with a dressing, what humans would call “a salad” (picture source).
SIDE DISHES AND CONDIMENTS
Yon-bar-kas: Redspice, a spice native to Vulcan.
Forati sauce: a highly spicy sauce that’s very popular in Vulcan, tastes vaguely like garlic.
Ob'taree: “fasting meals”; a high vitamin supplements taken with water during long ritual fasts.
Krei'la: a Vulcan staple resembling flatbread or biscuits, mostly eaten during breakfast. See below for an example, as baked by
Sidzhan T’Gai
of Kirshara:
DESSERTS AND FRUITS
Ameelah: a dessert, similar in taste to a fried banana.
Hirat: a type of fruit native to Vulcan, very similar to Terran grapes.
Kaasa: a blue-green fruit. It is often made into a distilled juice, which humans find very potent.
Pir mah: a Vulcan breakfast item that tastes much like strawberry toast.
Pla-savas: a sweet blue to black-coloured fruit (literally “blue fruit”).
Prusah kisan: a Vulcan fruit custard-like vegan pie.
Savas dukal-yel-travek: also called “globefruit”. A large, spherical fruit native to Vulcan, and known to be one of Sarek’s favourite fruits.
Tufeen hushani: a Vulcan dessert, very similar to carrot cake, and usually served at wedding ceremonies.
Yon-savas: a strongly flavoured yellow to red-coloured fruit (literally “fire fruit”).
Sash-savas: a strong, citrus-like, oblong fruit (literally “acid fruit”).
Gespar: a fruit often served for breakfast. It tastes tangy and spicy, and it has a reddish-pink colour. The rind of the gespar is was used in the production of soap and
perfume in ancient times.
DRINKS
Birkeen: A sweet Vulcan herb, often used to flavour water.
Hivas: a purple-coloured milkshake-like refreshment.
K'vass: a Vulcan beverage reminiscent of hot-buttered rum, although completely non-alcoholic; it does contain enough sucrose to make it an intoxicating beverage for a Vulcan.
Saya: Highly intoxicating drink made from the juice of a fruit native to Vulcan. The drink is green in colour and has a herbal taste.
Su'aasal: the potent juice of a d'lechu (a type of desert plant similar to a succulent, which has
psychotropic properties). It is used ritually to prepare children for bonding ceremonies.
Theris: also called theris-masu. A slightly bitter tea made by steeping leaves of aromatic Vulcan plants in boiling water. In contrast, the Terran style of tea is called tei.
Gespar-masu: the juice of gespar, a fruit grown in the temperate zone of the Kir Province.
Vulcan mocha: a Vulcan take on the popular Terran coffee.
T'mara omi: a green alcoholic beverage
produced in Vulcan and normally consumed after meals. Due to its
alcohol content it is highly priced in the Federation, even though
Vulcans cannot feel its effects. It is commonly known as “Vulcan port”.
Farewell online privacy
What happened?
Trump happened.
just get a VPN?
You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect.
Let’s start with a simple test.
Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/
It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!
So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?
A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy.
Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)
But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)
Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).
Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey. The ISP still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US.
I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.
There is still more danger!
Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs
More about law
The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)
There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).
You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.
If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program!
I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.
Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging.
I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright.
Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also, there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)
Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)
This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.
EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research!
I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi.
If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it.
Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?
He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.
Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent.
Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it.
btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important.
Don’t reblog this post to save a life.
Reblog this to protect an entire family!
@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?
If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first.
@elvesfromthedeep just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017).
Sources
- Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
- Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history
To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.
Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.
With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do.
You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that.
VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,)
Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it.
Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.
Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right
Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!
Reblogging again bc this is important
We have a VPN you should get one too
Please read.
Can you get them for your phones?
^ you can. & when you have a subscription you can use it on your phone and computer. no need for separate subs or purchases.
it is absolutely so important for safety. but one of my fave things to do with my vpn is access non-US netflix. I mean other places have all the new good place eps, all the ‘classic’ bggo eps…